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In all honesty....Loving County, Texas and its 82 inhabitants shouldn't have to put up with the will of the 300 plus million voters outside the county.
Its sheer physical size should make it equal to Cook County Illinois which is smaller in physical size. The 6 million or so inhabitants of Cook County should be restricted because of its tiny physical size.
- Randall Flagg
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Re: US Politics Thread
An article obviously copied from some left wing site.
I read every single one of these. Did you?
If the worst you can tie to trump is that in 50 years of real estate, he didn't want to rent to people on welfare (is it cause they were black or because poor people destroy their properties. I'd love for SLC to try to avoid this claim. He's our resident real estate expert), that's pretty fucking good. Someone in the DoJ accused him of discrimination. No evidence or conviction was ever put forward. 40 years from now I'll bet you'll claim the Ferguson riots were due to racism too. After all, Holder's DoJ accused them of racism. No evidence or case they can point to, just a feeling and you swallow it.
Seriously. Have you read these. Did you ever step back and ask yourself if on their own, any of these claims are credible.
This is the best your side can do. Scour the internet for anything and everything it can to attack Trump. And this is the best evidence in over 50 years of the public spot light. I'd be ashamed.
Re: US Politics Thread
Donald Trump pulls a bait and switch on America
Perhaps we should be thankful this week for Donald Trump’s insincerity. In a breathtaking fortnight of flip-flopping, he has reversed many of his most reckless and damaging campaign positions.
The new Trump professes sympathy for people and ideas he disdained during the “vicious” campaign. He now admires President Obama, doesn’t want to harm (let alone lock up) Hillary Clinton, is waffling on climate change, and thinks waterboarding might not work. Maybe he’ll even decide that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a great trade deal. I hope so.
In advertising, this approach is known as “bait and switch.” You hook the prospective buyer with claims that can’t (and in Trump’s case, shouldn’t) be delivered. Then you substitute something more realistic. A scriptural version of a belated conversion (after the wild rumpus is over) is the prayer of the wastrel young St. Augustine: “Lord, make me pure, but not yet.”
Will these changes of position hurt Trump? I doubt it. Moderates will be relieved that he has softened his line on key issues. And true believers probably always knew that Trump’s views were pliable. So much about Trump is like the professional wrestling matches he adores: Everyone knows they’re fake, but fans love the noisy showmanship and phony gut punches all the more.
Some of his reported and rumored Cabinet picks are reassuring, too. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will bring the richness of her Indian American immigrant experience to the job of U.N. ambassador. Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis would be a fine secretary of defense and the first in memory who keeps Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius for bedside reading. Mitt Romney would be a strong exponent of American interests as secretary of state. With Trump, you’re grateful for every decision and appointment that’s less bad than you feared.
Of Obama, whom he had castigated and sought to undermine for years, he said, “I really liked him a lot” after a White House visit. Of Clinton, for whom his campaign prescription had been a special prosecutor and imprisonment, he said, “She went through a lot. And suffered greatly in many different ways. And I am not looking to hurt them at all.”
On the Paris agreement to reduce climate change, which he had threatened to tear up, Trump said he now has an “open mind” and sees “some connectivity” between climate change and human activity. About waterboarding, which he had advocated, he suddenly discovered Mattis’s wisdom that “a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers” work better in getting information.
We know what’s going on here: Trump took inflammatory positions during the campaign, which appealed to people’s basest instincts and fears, because he thought they would help him get elected. He’s hardly the first modern politician to discover the utility of lying. Lyndon B. Johnson was a master at it. Bill Clinton wasn’t bad at it, either, even in front of a grand jury. Hillary Clinton could bend the truth, too, though hardly by Trumpian proportions.
Maybe there’s even something “American” about this form of upbeat dishonesty. River City believed in the ability of “Professor” Harold Hill, “the music man,” to lead a marching band even though he couldn’t read music. Herman Melville, perhaps our greatest novelist, painted a dark picture in “The Confidence Man” of a gambler who boards a riverboat on April Fool’s Day and fleeces his fellow passengers.
What’s jarring here is that Trump’s wildly polarizing rhetoric put the nation through a nightmare campaign. He took raw wounds of race, class and gender and tore at them until they bled. He created the equivalent of a national panic attack. America is a strong country, but it’s a fragile one, too. Trump says he wants to put it back together, but the job will be harder because of the damage he did himself.
We’re watching a new season of the Trump reality TV show — the one in which he realizes that the job he wanted is much bigger than he imagined, and that he needs to heal wounds, rather than keep them festering. The job is bigger than the man, even this one, with his oversized ego.
What should he do? Trump put it just right in his comments to the Times. “We want to bring the country together, because the country is very, very divided.” If he means that, he needs to be a wise, careful steward — two qualities we’d all love to see more of from our next president.
Re: US Politics Thread
If the worst you can tie to trump is that in 50 years of real estate, he didn't want to rent to people on welfare (is it cause they were black or because poor people destroy their properties. I'd love for SLC to try to avoid this claim. He's our resident real estate expert), that's pretty fucking good. Someone in the DoJ accused him of discrimination. No evidence or conviction was ever put forward. 40 years from now I'll bet you'll claim the Ferguson riots were due to racism too. After all, Holder's DoJ accused them of racism. No evidence or case they can point to, just a feeling and you swallow it.
What claim am I to avoid?
- Randall Flagg
- Rep: 139
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Randall Flagg wrote:If the worst you can tie to trump is that in 50 years of real estate, he didn't want to rent to people on welfare (is it cause they were black or because poor people destroy their properties. I'd love for SLC to try to avoid this claim. He's our resident real estate expert), that's pretty fucking good. Someone in the DoJ accused him of discrimination. No evidence or conviction was ever put forward. 40 years from now I'll bet you'll claim the Ferguson riots were due to racism too. After all, Holder's DoJ accused them of racism. No evidence or case they can point to, just a feeling and you swallow it.
What claim am I to avoid?
Whether renters on welfare are more apt to destroy rental property than those who pay for their rent without assistance.
Re: US Politics Thread
In all honesty....Loving County, Texas and its 82 inhabitants shouldn't have to put up with the will of the 300 plus million voters outside the county.
Its sheer physical size should make it equal to Cook County Illinois which is smaller in physical size. The 6 million or so inhabitants of Cook County should be restricted because of its tiny physical size.
Cmon damnit...this was kind of...a little bit funny
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slcpunk wrote:Randall Flagg wrote:If the worst you can tie to trump is that in 50 years of real estate, he didn't want to rent to people on welfare (is it cause they were black or because poor people destroy their properties. I'd love for SLC to try to avoid this claim. He's our resident real estate expert), that's pretty fucking good. Someone in the DoJ accused him of discrimination. No evidence or conviction was ever put forward. 40 years from now I'll bet you'll claim the Ferguson riots were due to racism too. After all, Holder's DoJ accused them of racism. No evidence or case they can point to, just a feeling and you swallow it.
What claim am I to avoid?
Whether renters on welfare are more apt to destroy rental property than those who pay for their rent without assistance.
I have rented a property to a family on assistance (white Mormons-church helped pay their rent) and they did 25-30k worth of damage to my home and cost me another 10-13k in legal fees to sue the management company. It was a nightmare. I still have the guy's name (Jason Workman, fuck you) and wish to inflict harm on to him this day (10 years later.) I would not rent to anybody on assistance because of this. But I've also seen "regular" renters trash houses too.
No skin in the game = zero accountability for your property. Renters inherently have no skin in the game, and renters on assistance even less so.
I would never do rentals again, unless they were commercial. Commercial renters want your place to be nice, make improvements and pay everything, including taxes.
So yea, I agree with you on that aspect, but I still think there is plenty of evidence to support Trump's family partaking in racist practices over the years.
- Smoking Guns
- Rep: 330
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The majority of votes should dictate the election. We're telling people in several states their votes don't matter. Christ, all they focus on now are swing states anyway. It would put all 50 states in play.
Actually no it wouldn't. It would make only major markets the focus. NYC, Chicago, Houston,California. Skip all the small shit.
- Smoking Guns
- Rep: 330
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Randall Flagg wrote:mitchejw wrote:Hillarys lead in the popular vote now well over 2 million....
Thank god we're a republic and have the electoral colledictate r 3 states shouldn't dictate how the rest of the country lives.
Actually 2 or 3 states do dictate how the rest of our country lives.
If every vote counted Turnout would be greater for sure. It would not look like this year's election. More Dems would vote in Alabama and more Republicans would vote in Cali and NY etc. No real point in voting where I live. It always goes republican by a wide margin.
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misterID wrote:The majority of votes should dictate the election. We're telling people in several states their votes don't matter. Christ, all they focus on now are swing states anyway. It would put all 50 states in play.
Actually no it wouldn't. It would make only major markets the focus. NYC, Chicago, Houston,California. Skip all the small shit.
They skip the small shit now. Republicans could realistically go after California and Democrats Texas. Every single vote should count.
